Bondsville author and lifelong knitter Suzanne Strempek Shea is among the featured in “Knitting Yarns,” an anthology of knitting-related essays edited by Ann Hood and including former Western Massachusetts authors Elinor Lipman and Anita Shreve, along with Sue Grafton and Barbara Kingsolver.

Shea’s piece, “Crafty Critters,” begins with the knitting lessons she took at her Palmer 4-H Club by the same name, led by her mother, Julie Strempek, of Three Rivers, and the late Frances Bigda, of Palmer.

Shea’s been on the road helping promote the book with authors including Hood, Arlington author Elizabeth Searle and Boston-area author Marianne Leone, known to fans of HBO’s“The Sopranos” for playing Joanne Moltisanti, the mother of Christopher Moltisanti.

Later this year, Shea will be traveling to promote two books of her own: “This is Paradise,” out in April, about Irishwoman Mags Riordan and the clinic she founded in the African nation of Malawi, and “Make a Wish but Not For Money,” out in October, a novel about a palm reader in a down-and-out shopping mall.